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I picked up CP during that Target “buy 2 games, get 1 free” deal (bought 3 of them, then cancelled 2 to get it for cheaper). Then on release day I realized that I had already preordered the game through PSN months back 
. Issued my request for a refund through Sony yesterday and I’m just going to keep the physical copy. I’ll end up saving $20 and the physical copy comes with some free stuff so that’s cool.
Here are my initial thoughts on the game. Keep in mind I’m only maybe 10 or so hours into it. I’ll put it in a spoiler in case it’s too long
All in all, the game is fun and I’m enjoying it. I’m just disappointed because I expected more with how it was marketed. We were told this game would be the most immersive experience we’ve ever had. That the world would feel alive and bustling. So far in my experience, that simply isn’t true. Not only are a lot of the things they touted about this game completely missing or executed poorly, but it’s honestly nothing I haven’t seen before, often done better, in other games.
. Issued my request for a refund through Sony yesterday and I’m just going to keep the physical copy. I’ll end up saving $20 and the physical copy comes with some free stuff so that’s cool.Here are my initial thoughts on the game. Keep in mind I’m only maybe 10 or so hours into it. I’ll put it in a spoiler in case it’s too long
•For all the bugs/glitches/crashes (which thankfully I haven’t had too many), the game is very fun. I don’t find it boring or a chore to play like other open world games can wind up becoming. The shooting is also surprisingly good (other than having to tweak the controls). The guns feel really satisfying.
• the driving is trash. As is the mini map when you’re driving around. I miss my turns all the time then have to awkwardly u-turn down these narrow, corridors like streets.
• this game is nowhere near as immersive as they marketed it out to be IMO. I think one of the reasons for that is the AI. It’s honestly trash. People on the street just feel like filler. They have no lives, no personality, and they all say the same lines. They barely even react to what’s going on sometimes. I was walking down the street and some guy randomly jumped out of a skyscraper window to his death (which I’m pretty sure is a scripted event because I’ve seen it in other peoples playthroughs), and nobody flinched. They didn’t react at all. The AI in this game feels like GTA 3 era AI at times. Just mindless. Anything cool or random that happens in this game feels scripted, and when anything happens outside of that script, the game doesn’t know how to react and it breaks immersion. I saw a guy helping a girl who looked like she was sick (like she was woozy from drinking or something) and when I went to talk to them, she said some random line I had heard maybe a dozen npcs say by that point in the game. Nothing at all about her being sick or wishing she hadn’t drank so much or anything. Why does every npc recycle the same lines using the same ten different voices? I can’t even tell if it’s by lazy design or a bug with the AI lol. Like fam, in RDR2 you could follow an npc for a full in-game day and they would have an actual cycle. You could watch a guy come out of his tent in the morning, hang out in his camp for a while, walk to the bar in the evening, then come back home and go to sleep at night. Even if that was pseudo scripted, it still felt 10x more immersive than the AI in this game.
• CP reminds me of a cross between Destiny and Division, except prettier and with a much better story and side quests. That’s exactly how I play it which is probably why I enjoy it, but also why I’m disappointed. I wanted deeper RPG elements and I don’t feel we got that. Customization is shallow. There’s no transmog for gear so sometimes you’re stuck looking like a hobo because what you’re wearing has better stats than something else you might think looks cooler, but is lower level. Most of the loot you pick up is just crafting materials, and even then, what is the point of crafting when you can just pick up a better weapon later? Hacking also seems repetitive and lazy, even pointless if you’re doing it for stealth since enemies will always be alerted afterwards no matter how far away you are from them. I don’t even really use it at all anymore.
• the driving is trash. As is the mini map when you’re driving around. I miss my turns all the time then have to awkwardly u-turn down these narrow, corridors like streets.
• this game is nowhere near as immersive as they marketed it out to be IMO. I think one of the reasons for that is the AI. It’s honestly trash. People on the street just feel like filler. They have no lives, no personality, and they all say the same lines. They barely even react to what’s going on sometimes. I was walking down the street and some guy randomly jumped out of a skyscraper window to his death (which I’m pretty sure is a scripted event because I’ve seen it in other peoples playthroughs), and nobody flinched. They didn’t react at all. The AI in this game feels like GTA 3 era AI at times. Just mindless. Anything cool or random that happens in this game feels scripted, and when anything happens outside of that script, the game doesn’t know how to react and it breaks immersion. I saw a guy helping a girl who looked like she was sick (like she was woozy from drinking or something) and when I went to talk to them, she said some random line I had heard maybe a dozen npcs say by that point in the game. Nothing at all about her being sick or wishing she hadn’t drank so much or anything. Why does every npc recycle the same lines using the same ten different voices? I can’t even tell if it’s by lazy design or a bug with the AI lol. Like fam, in RDR2 you could follow an npc for a full in-game day and they would have an actual cycle. You could watch a guy come out of his tent in the morning, hang out in his camp for a while, walk to the bar in the evening, then come back home and go to sleep at night. Even if that was pseudo scripted, it still felt 10x more immersive than the AI in this game.
• CP reminds me of a cross between Destiny and Division, except prettier and with a much better story and side quests. That’s exactly how I play it which is probably why I enjoy it, but also why I’m disappointed
. I wanted deeper RPG elements and I don’t feel we got that. Customization is shallow. There’s no transmog for gear so sometimes you’re stuck looking like a hobo because what you’re wearing has better stats than something else you might think looks cooler, but is lower level. Most of the loot you pick up is just crafting materials, and even then, what is the point of crafting when you can just pick up a better weapon later? Hacking also seems repetitive and lazy, even pointless if you’re doing it for stealth since enemies will always be alerted afterwards no matter how far away you are from them. I don’t even really use it at all anymore.
